Now this is interesting: Our old friend John Wilson from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) claims that CBS tilts to the right in its coverage of free speech controversies in higher education involving conservatives.
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Report: Common Core Doesn’t Prepare Children for College
This from The Daily Signal: A recently released report confirms what Common Core critics have suspected all along: Common Core State Standards do not adequately prepare students for college-level work. The ACT report finds many…
Top Ten List of Why Public Schools are Exceptional
The National School Boards Association (NSBA) came up with a list of the top ten things that make public schools exceptional in 2016. See if you can spot any of these in a government school…
Universities Against Regulation… Of Themselves
Academics found something they don’t want the government to regulate when they looked in the mirror. “Last year, for example, the Task Force on Federal Regulation of Higher Education—formed in 2013 at the behest of…
Sagging Pants Notice is Racist, Apparently
Arkansas’s Henderson State University posted a notice that sagging pants are not tolerated on their campus. Some students called it racist. Really?!
No to Gov’t Intervention in Collecting College Student Data
Great take by Joy Pullmann on the potential lifting of a ban on collecting national student data. Let’s not let the government take over another part of education, please?
Analysis: Conservatives, Libertarians face High Security Fees for Campus Events
Sounds like discrimination based on political ideology, doesn’t it? These are the tactics employed by the Left to discourage free speech.
55% of Americans say College Degree is Worth It, Down from 69% in 2009
More and more, Americans are doubting the value of getting a four-year college degree.
Did Governor Scott Walker Graduate?
Reports that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker did not graduate from college have provoked a stream of broadsides, most of them misleading. For starters, he left after three and a half years “in good standing,” according…
Fracking College Degree to be Offered at Illinois Community College
Talk about an actual practical college degree, for starters.
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Fact-Checking History’s First Draft
Journalism, the old cliché goes, is the first draft of history. Unfortunately, it rarely gets through rewrites before it hits the classroom. Yesterday’s headlines often look a bit silly when viewed through a microfiche, and…
Coming to a university near you
Before you find him on offer as a university speaker or course, you may want to read the meticulously documented story of Cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal by former Accuracy in Academia executive director Dan Flynn.
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